"In addition, compression of the surrounding normal pituitary tissue can alter production of other hormones, leading to changes in menstruation and breast discharge in women and impotence in men because of reduced testosterone production."

I think it's pretty dangerous to think something is "okay" because some people wearing navy suits with American flag pins on their lapels declared it so. Whether something is legal or not makes no difference to me.

I don't see a large difference. They both involve boatloads of innocent people who were going about their business who had to be detained, in order to ensure they weren't committing any crimes. If they declared NYC's stop-and-frisk to be constitutional, would you agree with that?

Do you have any links to anything saying there's a difference in JHP and FMJ? I've actually never heard that. You stock and keep different kinds of ammunition because they have different purposes. There's a reason the US military uses blanks for some training exercises. Most handgun training I've ever seen was conducted with ball ammunition. If you don't know what kind of ammunition is in the weapon you have loaded, you should be ashamed of yourself.

If I recall correctly, hollow point ammunition is roughly twice as expensive as standard full metal jacket. Maybe they're training by shooting watermelons or something, because you're not going to know the difference shooting paper targets.

Where does it end though? I'm not the only one saying question this. The 4th amendment is already gone in NYC with the whole stop-and-frisk thing. If the United States continues down this path, does it matter if we turn into a police state intentionally or just through apathy from the public?